By Abdul Masih —
In the last 20 years, Qatar plowed $2B into Hamas.
Hamas’s senior leadership lives in luxury in Qatar, where they plot terror for its hapless, deluded citizens to execute against Israel — to Gaza‘s demise and destruction.
“If we want to end terrorism in the Middle East, we should start with Qatar’s money,” says exiled Qatari dissident Sheikh Khalid Al-Hail. “If there is no Qatar, there is no terrorist group.”
As the world grapples with widespread hatred and violence against Jews, ultimately there’s a money trail funding it that traces back to Qatar, supposed ally of the United States.
Of late, conservative voices — Tucker Carlson, Rob Smith, Emily Wilson, Caitlin Sinclair — have traveled all-expenses-paid to Qatar and come back with splashy videos and images of the modernized paradise. On Qatar, Carlson heaps praise in the same quantities as he heaps criticism on Israel.
But when it comes to buying influence over America’s generalized opinion, the junkets for conservatives are silly compared to the a staggering $20B lavished on higher education in the U.S. With the cascade of money, Qatar gets professors and students to take up it causes (Palestine is one).
And yet, Qatar is U.S.’s close ally in the region. They play a critical role in mediation with terrorist groups and host a U.S. military airport in striking distance of Iran, Iraq and Kuwait to keep hostiles in check. On Dec. 10, FBI Director Kash Patel pledged to beef up cooperation on training, intelligence sharing and capacity building.
How does Qatar ride the fence of being in favor of and opposed to terrorism?
“Tamim (bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar’s emir) is a man who loves to be worshiped,” explains Al-Hail, who was imprisoned and tortured in Qatar for pushing for democracy. “You have a psychopath who’s running the country… Did you see him next to Trump when Trump said, “‘Oh, he’s a great leader?’ He was happy, smiling. You don’t know how much he paid for that.”
Al-Hail is the leader of the Qatar National Democratic Party, which aims to replace the Islamist theocracy with a government with Western values like those of United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and to some extent even Saudi Arabia (which still lags in modernization due to its large Salafist population).
Unlike opposition leaders in Western democracies who can live in their countries, Al-Hail is exiled and spends most of his time in Europe.
Qatar’s hereditary emir holds all executive and legislative authority and ultimately controls the judiciary. Political parties are not permitted,, and the only elections are for an advisory municipal council. While Qatari citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, most of the population consists of foreign workers with no political rights, few civil liberties and limited access to economic opportunity.
In what Al-Hail says was image projecting to the West, Qatar experimented with democratic elections in 2021, but because opposition leaders won too many seats, the emir “canceled” the election in 2024, Al-Hail says. “What they wanted was just a one-man show,” Al-Hail says.
In addition to hosting Hamas, Qatar hosts leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood. During the 1990s, Doha was the residence of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 Twin Tower attacks in New York City.
Emir Tamim is greatly influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology.
“Every single terrorist regime in the region that opposing the West, starting from the Iranian regime… started by the uh Muslim Brotherhood,” Al Hail says. “Al-Qaeda started from 1999. Al Jazeera was the main media to promote the messages of Al-Qaeda. They want to control the narrative of the Islamists. They want to have more power in the region.”
Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir concurs with Al-Hail.
“The Qataris allow their senior religious clerics to go on television and justify suicide bombings; that’s not acceptable,” Al-Jubeir said. “The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists; that’s not acceptable. The head of Al-Qaeda entered Saudi Arabia on a Qatari passport. We captured Al-Qaeda types coming into Saudi Arabia on Qatari passports.”
Al Jazeera is 90% funded by Qatar and is banned in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Israel. It is restricted in Iraq.
“Al Jazeera is an intelligence platform for Qatar,” Al-Hail says. “Any crisis started in the Middle East started because of Al Jazeera. It’s a propaganda machine with fake news.”
Al Jazeera was instrumental in the Muslim Brotherhood’s take over of Egypt and shore up Islamist political parties in Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia, Al-Hail says. “They create chaos in the region,” Al-Hail says. “Basically, they oppose any Western values.”
Al-Hail says Qatar should be sanctioned internationally for its promoting of terrorism.
Sources: Prager U, others.
